Terminal.app and Its Necessary Additions
People who work a lot with Terminal.app in OS X know it has limitations. In Tiger, it was so severely crippled as to be unusable, but in Leopard, you can actually make it useful.
Step one is changing the font. ProFontX is my favorite, because it's compact and readable. (Though I don't use it for my coding.)
Step two is getting nicer Terminal colors. I for one like having brighter colors, partly because my monitor isn't great at contrast with dark colors on black.
To be able to change colors, you need SIMBL and a plugin for SIMBL. SIMBL basically lets you hook arbitrary code into GUI applications on OS X.
See http://ciaranwal.sh/2007/11/01/customising-colours-in-leopard-terminal for more information on getting that to work.
Step three is changing what Cmd+[0-9] does. The original behavior never even worked for me, as I'm an avid Spaces user, I'd suspect that borks something up.
What you want is map the keys to switching tab, and this too is doable with a SIMBL plugin.
See http://ciaranwal.sh/2007/12/10/tab-switching-in-terminal for that.
Lastly I also use something called Blurminal, again SMIBl. It blurs the background of the terminal, so you can use translucency without going nuts.
See http://ciaranwal.sh/2007/11/16/blurminal for that...
... Noticed something yet? All of the SIMBL plugins were from one man, Ciarán Walsh. Thanks, dude.
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